Robert Kagan, who resigned from his position [as editor at large at Washington Post] on Friday after more than two decades at the publication, told the Daily Beast that Trump’s meeting with executives of Bezos’ Blue Origin space company the same day th...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peachfront Yes, thanks for that reminder. The Supremes absolutely did that.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Piousunyn Amazon in general is hard to quit. It has insinuated itself everywhere in our culture like a drug on which we become dependent.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@philip_cardella I agree!

[juliehuz@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy @philip_cardella At least German business leaders waited until Hitler actually came to power...our @$$hat billionaires are kissing the ring before its even on his finger

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@juliehuz @philip_cardella Yes, though I think the strategizing of German business, military, media, and academic elites to help Hitler rise to power began before he rose to power and played a bit role in getting him into office.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Dingsextrem That's my take, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@i_gvf You don't mean that Kagan or Lazarus are saying that this explanation exonerates Bezos, do you?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow Yes, indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@RoguePlayer Weird, for sure.

[iamdannyboling@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy

Apparently we're going to have to rework the job description for anyone in journalism. It's a new world out there.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Many of the owners and the senior executives of the companies that run major media outlets are Trump supporters. This is inevitably reflected in the decisions made in the newsroom, notwithstanding the protestations of the anchors who create these false equivalencies.

This leaves us relying on such sources as independent media for honest reporting."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #LosAngelesTimes #PatrickSoonShiong #EconomicElites
/11

The Death Knell for the Corporate Media

The last straw was this week’s decisions by the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post

(mmansour.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The near death of investigative journalism and the demise of local news have allowed politicians to lie with impunity, safe in the knowledge that nobody will call them out. This is untenable, and cries out for change. The only way that will come about is if readership and viewership dwindle to near nothing. Take heart. The Washington Post is reported to have lost more than 2,000 readers and counting since their announcement."

#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
/12

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@wdlindsy
Everything with Trump is transactional

[dalek_fan@paquita.masto.host]

@wdlindsy

Well, in our liberal regimes we have several layers of obfuscation.

Between the corporate media and our electoral process full of obstacles against candidates who actually want to change things for the better but that maintain plausible deniability I'd say It's not that difficult to understand why lots of people believe we have fully functional democracies

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dalek_fan I'd add that a generation and more of Americans have now been bombarded daily with a steady diet of lies and malicious progaganda by the right-wing noise machine, and the Republican party has deliberately underfunded education and done all it can to dismantle public education.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Asbestos Yes. That may be one of the definitions of marcissism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@IAmDannyBoling For sure — a new world out there.

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@wdlindsy
probably. or at least self centeredness.
One could also argue that everything for everyone is transactional.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Asbestos I suppose — and, yet, I think of the acts of supremely courageous and unselfish acts of love some people do to benefit others, and ask if it would be correct to call those acts transactional.

[asbestos@pnw.zone]

@wdlindsy
Yes, it's depressing, but one can argue they do them because it makes them feel better, or gives the a sense of self worth. I choose not to worry about that.